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safe night life, that actually deters the economic activity and creates challenges for our over all night life economy. and so my goal is to figure out how do we insure a healthy vibrant and safe night life that allows us economic and social and community activity that is so critical to what we are as a city to continue well. i want to thank the members from cmadoctor, and the entertainment free who have worked closely with my office to think about a win/win situations where both the night life operators and law enforcement can work together on measures that will ensure that certain operators are being a bit more responsible because that creates an issue for everyone else and i think that is where i hope that we go. >> anything else? and by the way, i think who knew that three harvard law grads would be so interested in this issue. i think that is president chiu noted that. >> is there any, anything else that chief? >> no, i think that complete
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agreement here. we all want to see the city prosper, and the clubs do well, and do the safely and responsibly. >> i think that we are working towards that goal and working closely with the entertainment in doing it. >> why don't we open it up to public comment. any member who would like to speak, please come forward. >> hello, i am stephanie grain berg and i am here representing the cpab as well as the neighbors which is a neighborhood association (inaudible) ininclusive of the troubled long troubled broad way corridor. first of all, thank you for having this hearing, i think that it is very, very important. i am here really to request or plead, if you will, for more collaboration on not life violence or corridor violence i am speaking of the broad way
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corridor. i have lived a block from broad way now, up above broad way for almost 20 years and i hear over and over again from the agencies to the officials to the police, it is just broad way and i can tell you that is not the case. and after living there for 20 years i have seen the ups and downs, sure there has been good and bad times, right now, it is at its worst. and i guess we are just desperate to find a solution to that, i think that just listening here it has been frustrating because it is a lot of finger pointing, is the ec or the police or the city, but everyone forgets that people live here and people live in these zones and the broad way corridor is not a vacuum just two blocks of a good time of clubs and strip clubs and just entertainment. there is a whole residential community surrounding this
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corridor. years and years ago, most of us would go down to broad way and go to tamaso. and we would get a drink and get something to eat and now the locals never go down there it is no longer a neighborhood for the locals. >> and it needs to be addressed. i guess what i am hoping to see here is to have more hearings to work for this and i think that it is beneficial to collaborate in this man and her also just the reporting we are not receiving statistics and we don't know what is going on, the problem is that there are fights and this violence happening. >> this shaping but we don't know exactly where it is coming from. >> so we need better statistics to know that. right now what we have are residents going out video taping, on their own which is unsafe, and they are getting so desperate they are sending things to the media they are pulling their own crime reports from wherever they can find them >> thank you. >> listening to police scanners. >> i have a lot more to say. >> thank you. >> you don't have time. >>; is that correct?.
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>> correct. >> we have to give everyone the same amount of time. >> thank you. >> supervisor and president chiu, pleasure to talk in front of you as a citizen and one of the founding board members of cmac. excuse me dry mouth, it is a bad allergy day and i am over medicated i wanted to give a whole series of individual bullet points because clearly what has been said today, requires a lot of context. and there is no way that i could tell that story in three minutes. the reason why the entertainment commission was created is not known by anyone in this room to my knowledge because no one was there except for me. and one of the key reasons why that entertainment commission was created was because the industry required baby sitting,
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and it required enhanced education. and we knew that this process was going to take a long time. as it has taken. let's examine broad way. broad way is posed as a result of work between the police department and the entertainment commission the responsible club owners and cmac, broad way is posed to have a revitalization of a rebirth and the reason that will happen is because the cbd will create an environment where the merchants and land owners can look towards what the correct balance of tenants should be. rather than who is the highest bidder. >> and as we talk about saturation, saturation of night clubs, i also think as someone who advocates for night clubs, maybe we should look at saturation of residents because i think in places like south of market that would be the better way to look at the history.
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and my final thing in my long list of unsaid thing will be that the entertainment liaison and the police department... >> if you could wrap up. >> the entertainment liaison at the police department was created seven years after the entertainment commission was created. and so it is just been a recent phenomena. >> thank you. >> we are happy that it is working. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> is there any other member of the public who would like to speak. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> president chiu? >> i want to thank you for your involvement in this hearing and i want to just make a couple of points, first of all i want to thank my con stit ent who came from the southern part of telegraph hill, she well encapsule lated the situation in broad way and i have a feeling that is different from what is going on in district districts. but we are working together as
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allen put out, i do want to thank the neighborhood associations, and the responsible club owners, cmac. s police department and because we have been coming together over the last six months to think about new strategy and it is very likely in the next couple of months that i will be introducing legislation to create the district so that we can really continue to focus on what has been an issue. i also want to continue to ask the entertainment commission and the san francisco police department to work together to give us as robust set of reporting data as you can. i know that we had a requirement of quarterly reports and we have not had reports to this, but i would like to ask, you know and consider this the report for the first quarter of this year, that soon after the end of the first half of this year, i would like to get a communication from your respective departments on how they work and depending on what we see at that time, ask for
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another hearing to continue to monitor the process, i want to thank supervisor weiner for the work that he is doing and look forward to looking at this legislation and hopefully continuing to give the entertainment commission the tools that they need to address this. and i do want to take a moment and address the issue of saturation of sort of residents verses night clubs and i could imagine and i want to make sure that mr. allen's comments were taken out of context. you are referring to that in the soma area that there be balance between residents and entertainment corridor and i assume that the comment was not directed to broad way or polk street. good, i want to state on the record that he is agreeing with that in those neighborhoods my district includes the densist neighborhoods in the city and we have literally thousands of residents thatvy heard from who appreciate good, healthy safe
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night life but have res issues of what we have had in years and need to think about on those particular corridors how we have a peaceful co-existence and the point of my constituents i think that many would love to go back to and be patron and customers of the clubs and bars and the restaurant but unfortunately don't feel comfortable doing that. that is the long term goal and if we do that, we can get to continuing the wonderful social, come munal and economic activity that we want to see and strive for, thank you to everyone who has participated in this. and the conversation will continue. >> thank you, supervisor weiner. >> thank you and, you know it is interesting despite the spirited three way discussion that we have been having today, i think that there is quite a bit of common ground. and i know that even though i have been a very fierce advocate for the night life, i also have been a fierce advocate for increasing the
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enforcement powers of the entertainment commission to be able to come down hard to bad actors. i know that supervisor campos and i work on a lot of issues in the mission and so, you know i think that the key here is i understand that broad way, in particular, has a lot of challenges for the neighborhood, and we absolutely need to and it needs to be addressed and i am very happy that the cbd is moving for ward. and i think that there are proactive ways to try to address what is happening on broad way and improve the situation for the neighborhood. i just want to make sure that we don't allow one really problematic situation or there are a few. to drive entertainment policy for the whole city, we need to be very specific in saying that there are special core doors that need to be addressed that does not mean that every corridor is like that.
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and they are all actually fairly unique. so thank you. >> thank you, and i do want to say that we will make sure that we continue this discussion and i think that the more information that we have the better and i especially want to thank the residents who have come out to share their concerns and their thoughts. my hope is that we can get more of that input and more feedback as this moves forward. and into the police department, and the entertainment commission, i would say that and putting together information i think that it is important to provide some context as well. and that we are very clear about how we define the different data points that we are talking about whether it is incidents, with violence or without violence or whatever that is. and also to provide some context because i think that to the extent that we are focusing on this industry, on the entertainment industry, we also need to know what is happening also city-wide. because that can also provide a context for general trends.
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you know, one of the things that we know for instance, is the fact that we have as a city a number of incidents involving smart phones and cell phones, and so, i would imagine that some of those issues will be reflected in some of the data that you have, and i think that it is important to have that and i want to agree with what supervisor weiner said. i think that it is really important to make sure that we address this specific needs of each district. and we want to be very supportive of the efforts of the district supervisor whether it is 3, 6, to make sure that the concerns and needs of their constituents are addressed and also to make sure that we don't have a one size fits all approach because the reality is what works in one district may not work with another district. and i know that we can get to a point that we can have the right approach district by district and still have a good balance city wide policy. >> so, with that, if it is okay, would i ask that we
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continue this item to the call of the chair so that we can bring this back and in the near future. >> so the motioned by supervisor mar. if we could get that take that without objection? >> thank you, everyone. and mr. clerk, do we have any other business before the committee f >> that concludes today's agenda, thank you. >> meet adjourned.
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>> could we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? >> president mazzucco i would like to call roll. >> president mazzucco? >> present. >> vice president marshall? >> here. >> commissioner dejesus? >> in route. >> commissioner chan? >> present. >> commissioner kingsley. >> present. >> commissioner turman is excused. >> and commissioner loftus? >> is excused. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you very much,
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inspector monroe and ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the march 6, 2013, police commission meeting. we will start the agenda item first with public comment number two and move into line item number one with the special presentations. first we will start with general public comment >> the public is now welcome to address the commission, regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction. the speakers shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to the commissioners to the department or the personnel. on the police commission rules of order, during the public comment, neither the police or the occ personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions presented or may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and occ personnel, should refrain, however from entering into any debates or discussions with the speakers during part of the comments, please limit your comments to
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three minutes. >> good evening and welcome back. >> hi, i tried to come incro. gnetoo but i am jackie. >> i could not come because my rain dance did not in the past few weeks, i am kind of in a hurry today because i don't want to get caught in more rain. i missed you guys and, yes i did, a couple of things that i wanted to share with you, just general comments, in terms of if any of you, particularly those in uniform decide to come to 75 deor street that is the apartments, take the stairs. do not take the elevators, there are blind spots and i have got this thing about ambushing so i don't like it. so just safety thing, take the stairs. secondly, i didn't have an opportunity when i was here last night because i was in mourning, to say a thank you to
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sergeant tad yamaguchi, he did an incredible job of trying to make the building safer and was treated very badly by property manager and social services. he actually came to the community meeting and he was going to be my two minutes worth of public comment. and i am so relieved he was escorted out. i apologized to him later and i said, we will just work harder our own way. and so, i wanted to say that. the other thing that i wanted to say is that i have been looking at this whole business of tourists being attacked. when i live in hawaii, which i did do, hawaii came up with something, honolulu which worked. they were having these tourists who were coming and they were not actually being treated to the aloha spirit. they were being mugged on wakiki beach and we could not have that. well the bad guys that were out
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on bail having been mugged six or seven times are going to fly back from minnesota and came up with something that will work here in san francisco. the police department, the hotels and the airlines paid for airfare, hotel, these cards and so they were able to come back and testify, assaults on tourists dropped to nothing. so it works. so contact honolulu pd and if you contact say hi to the chief fradis i knew him when he worked in richmond, california and they insulted him and did not make him chief there, it was hawaii's gain, aloha, practice and make sure that if you want to go to hawaii get the kamaana rate, there is one and that is all that i am going to say, ten seconds to spare. i am good. missed you.
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>> thank you. >> good evening, >> good evening. brings to the forefront, people it is taser time and we dragged our feet for three years around here and it was in the chronicle and it was a great article and the police commission was dragging its feet and that is correct. we started with miss fong and chief granod went for it and the chief is going for it, we can't get a bolt in the police commission? what is the problem people? it is a simple vote. go and get it, i think that we have five members that will go for it, it is about time people. every day we waste is another live that we may lose, thank you. >> thank you, clyde. >> good evening. how is the tenderloin? >> well, you know what? i really want to talk to you about that. because i am very proud of law enforcement stepping in. on february 6th, 2013, that the police commissioners meeting,
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last month, i gave you paperwork and spoke with all of you about fighting crime as i always do. i would like to thank you for listening and acting quickly. a lot of good police officers answered the call of duty and i want to salute them. i love hard core law enforcement. you guys took a big bite out of crime during the month of february. i want it to continue. i am very proud of law enforcement for stepping hard on crime. i urge you to continue with tough action, it has to be. once again, i say stop and frisk is a must and you know why. hard core law enforcement must continue all crime must be punished don't let anyone get away with anything. keep stepping hard on crime, it is needed on a 24-7 basis. and i know that you need this, i know that you know it, and i know that we need a budget that supports that as well. and i want you to understand that i seriously believe in tactical law enforcement.
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it is a must as well. and i know my time is almost up, but i want to give you this, just to confirm what i am saying and i know at some point that you understand that you are going to have to go tactical. in certain areas. because of the crime. and once you start finding out more and more of what is going on in certain districts as you are, you will see that tactical law enforcement is a way. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you. >> dear commissioners, i am sure that my comments are going to make over the last speaker. i am a project manager with urban division and it has been about a month and a half since the number of six street merchants and residents came to the commission to report on the safety issues on 6th street and i am here today to give you an
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update on what is going on. so in a nutshell, in a (inaudible) from one, from late january to late february, it was bad. but part two from late february to march so far is actually getting much better. so to illustrate from the part one i have actually a testimony that is a testimony from the sixth street merchant that it is about a number of incidents that occurred in february that were pretty gruesome. that is what i want to concentrate on tonight. it has been obvious that in the past week or ten days, there has been some significant attempt by sfpd to clean up 6th street and in the alleys and the uniform officers are present in the regular basis. the results are noticable and this morning in the 6th street of a normal street and maybe
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not 100 percent of normal, but at least this is aoe fish sently normal for the baser by to feel safe. so the hope is now that it will last and it has been to sfpdf to increase the foot control in the market from 8 to 24th starting march first and we are glad that is long awaited that the sfpd hub and it will be in a couple of days. so the message, to sfpd is please keep up the good work after the mayor's press conference is over on friday and so thank you for your attention today and we will see you next month. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good evening. >> how are you? >> commissioners, good evening, and ladies and gentlemen, good evening. i have been here for a few weeks and i kind of missed the tribunal here and i was looking around today and it was the poster of the bruce willis die hard and i kept saying he has a
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very serious face. and i think that he has lost some weight, either bruce willis is greg or greg is bruce willis, i will pass it around to you very quickly that i was looking at the police site, your website where you have an incorrection there. george (inaudible) did not invent comstot the mayor brought it here from wherever he came from, but the site said that he invented it and created it was wrong. the man who created it was in new york city kept charts on the various neighborhoods and on the crimes in that area. and turned is over to the new york pd. and they developed it and then it went across the country. mr. gaston just used part of it and developed his own and used it the way that he has also developed the neighborhood courts that were invented by castro in cuba.
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and secondly briefly is that i read an article in the new york times on cold blooded murder and it kind of hit me, because san francisco has 1000 unsolved murders. so, i sent a letter to the new york times that a woman that wrote us and also she wanted the new york in it and the new york pd to start opening cold cases. murders that were unsolved and now the link is that they have gotten hundreds and hundreds of cases from across the united states and other police departments going into new york and seeing the data base for unsolved murders and so i sent out a letter and copies of the letters that i am giving you on the story that i sent to the nypd and the new york city commission, the police commission, to share data bases because i know that san francisco is going back to the murder that was in the marina were i, i ded the murder not the suspect. the person that was murdered i had a chance to enter san francisco's investigation unit and i was kind of shocked and
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it looked like csi to me, it looks like the gun shoes of 1950, and i know that you are short 19 to 22 investigators. but i think that this city or the sfpd has a long way to dow go*e and to bring it back up to par and start to investigate the cold cases of murder. so i have connected a link between the nypd and san francisco, sent letters and asked them to contact and be sure to open that data base and whatever data base that had for to share it with you and actually maybe build a team to solve some of the unsolved murders in this city which go back to sergeant john young in 1971, when i exited the united states navy. i have copies of that story for all of you right here which i am going to introduce and you can have those. and i thank you for your time on it. >> thank you, neal. any further public comment? >> sir? >> >> well, my name is (inaudible)
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and i was here once before. and i will say that it is getting a little bit better on 6th street and i will admit that, that the last week and a half it has changed. and we still are getting awful problem with urination because they say that a drop in center, on 6th and not, who i believe that it is. they have been drinking, they can't keep going in and using the bathroom. and so they come up there, and this constantly, and you know, i got employees, i mean, they see all of this stuff there all of the time. and you know, it is pretty sad. you know? it has been going on forever. and that i don't know what the answer is. you know? but it is something that gives. and the same thing that these ladies were selling groceries on the street and vegetables and using the street for a
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bathroom and then go and sell this stuff. i mean, you know, the health department, you know should step in or somebody should step in with it because it is not, it is very unsanitary and it has been going on for a couple of years now. you know, it is something that you can move them somewhere they can have controls and a bathroom or something, you know? so that is about all that i have to say and the substation, i drove by it last night, and it was jam packed with people around there, so they must like it. thank you. >> thank you. >> any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. call the next item one. >> presentation of certificates of appreciation. action. >> mr. rudy asercion and occ
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investigator charles r. gallman. >> mr. asercion first. >> so, very quickly, last year, this is rudy. >> hi. >> so, some of the commissioners may remember that in the bay view and in the mission, we had a safe haven program it was born out of when mrs. chin was thrown from the platform on third street and was very successful in restoring the calm to the neighborhood just the mention of the suggestion to him, he brought it to the 6th street area and it has been unbelievable. we have our first, though, example of where it works just as it is supposed to. as on february 21st, there was a woman being assaulted on 7th street. she was aware of the safe haven program and she ran into a